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...only will all kinds of text-books be accepted in the text-book and clothing collection of Phillips Brooks House, but special emphasis will be laid on contributions of fiction works, magazines, and other literature. This is in accordance with a recent cable message from Herbert Putnam '83, Librarian of Congress, now in France, which reads as follows: "Urge everything possible to stimulate book and magazine donations--need never greater than present--at least million more fiction and miscellaneous books demanded within next six months to maintain army morale...
...text-books received will be placed as usual in the Text Book Loan Library of the Phillips Brooks House Association, where they will be rented to students for the nominal sum of ten cents a year. The magazines and fiction will be sent at once to members of our military and naval forces overseas, while the clothing contributions will be distributed among various organized charities in Boston and Cambridge...
There are several divisions of the Phillips Brooks House Library which must be included in this report. They are: The Text Book Loan Library, the Randall Library, and the St. Paul's Society and Christian Association reading rooms...
...Phillips Brooks House has again decided to postpone the annual old clothes and text-book collection which had been tentatively set for next week. The new date has been announced as the week beginning Monday, April...
Contrary to previous announcements, it has been decided that uniforms and other military equipment, as well as old clothes and text books will be accepted. Special emphasis is to be laid on the collection of text books this year. These will not be given to charity, but will be put in the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library, where students may borrow them for the nominal sum of ten cents per year...